Anastasia Machuzhak: Language and Culture in the philosophy of Umberto Eko

Anastasia Machuzhak
Tver State Technical University, Department of Humanities, chair of philosophy and psychology.

The actuality of the research-work is due to the insufficient study of Eko’s cultural-philosophical heritage in Russian literature regarding Western philosophy of the newest period. Meanwhile, today Eko is one of the most authoritative scholars engaged in cultural philosophy studies. That’s why the analysis of Eko’s heritage perception being culturally conditioned is considered to be of great importance nowadays.
The object of the research is Eko’s works on philosophy, containing his views on the process of communication and peculiarities of modern culture.
The subject of the research is interconnection and interaction of language and culture in the philosophy of Umberto Eko.
The thesis will comprise two chapters in which the following aspects are going to be approached.
In the first chapter there will be given an analysis of semiotic-symbolic means of the language. In this respect it will be necessary to highlight the way Eko regards the problem of signs, his views on interconnection between symbol and metaphor and his concept of symbolic imagination